Included in the FAQ is a section on “How to Disable Wireless Security on airMAX AC Devices?”
The default security configuration for AC devices since firmware version 8.5.11 was changed to WPA2 AES with a pre-shared key 0000:0000.
Ubiquiti Default AC device WPA2 Preshared key
On Ubiquiti AC radios, you can not disable WPA 2 security through the web interface. This is not necessarily bad, however, what happens if you have a client that is reset and will only connect to the default ubnt SSID?
Fortunately there is a way to disable the WPA2 Preshared key.
Log into the device over ssh.
Run the following command to disable WPA2 in the config sed -i s/aaa.1.wpa.mode=2/aaa.1.wpa.mode=0/g /tmp/system.cfg
Save the config file with /usr/etc/rc.d/rc.softrestart save
Login to the client device and configure the SSID.
After you are done, you can click the enable button to re-enable Wireless Security.
Note: aaa.1.wpa.mode=2 doesn’t appear to be on all devices. If not, change “wpasupplicant.status=enabled” to “wpasupplicant.status=disabled”
Screenshot from UI help page on Wireless Security on airMAX AC devices
For some reason I ran into an issue where I can not remove authorized SSH Keys in AirOS version 6.3. It redirects to a 404 page and then to the main page.
Attempting to remove SSH keys in AirOS404 Error while attempting to remove SSH keys
Thankfully, we can still remove the authorized keys from the command line. For more information on making changes over SSH, refer to the following post.